HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
Welcome to HillFaith:Good News for Hill Staffers! This is where you’ll find two types of content:
First, fact-driven, thoroughly researched and often highly personalized Christian apologetics. Second, news and analyses about working on the Hill, including things like who's being promoted, what are the best (and worst!) offices to work for, salary information, and much else.
Here at HillFaith, we appreciate the importance, the challenges and the complexities of the work you do we are passionate about being a positive, informative resource for those in the trenches.
Most importantly, we want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is alive and He is "the way, the truth and the life." He is also the key to living the abundant life. Not materially, but in the Truth that sets you forever free.
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Stephen Smith is the House Republican Conference’s new press secretary, working with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.). He was previously communications director for Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.). Stephen is a 2010 graduate from the University of Indiana, Bloomington, with a BS in business. Got a scheduling question involving Rep. Steven…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Can’t Plato’s Forms Explain Morality Without God?
It may seem like a question with no relevance in the real world, but the issue of the source and nature of concepts and principles like justice influences pretty much all aspects of everybody’s daily lives. It’s not often that Plato’s forms are discussed in campus discussion forums these days, but then Dr. Frank Turek…
So, You Think That Jesus Story Is Nothing More Than A Mass ‘Shroom’ Hallucination?
You may if you’re susceptible to conspiracy theories, love to get high with the assistance of natural or chemical “friends,” or just can’t be bothered with coming to grips with the central fact of history. Meet well-known comedian, religion critic, and podcast host Joe Rogan, who, according to The Federalist’s Hans Fienne, has fallen under…
GREAT QUOTES: Josh McDowell On When Christians Challenged Him To Disprove Christ, Christianity
“I decided to start with the Bible. I knew that if I could uncover indisputable evidence that the Bible is an unreliable record, the whole of Christianity would crumble … “I took the challenge seriously. I spent months in research. I even dropped out of school for a time to study in the historically rich…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Free Will Is An Illusion If Choices Are Simply Determined By The Chemistry Of Our Brains
It is not uncommon to hear the claim that human thoughts and choices are actually nothing more than the product of material processes of neurons acting and reacting within our physical brains. Put another way, our minds are illusions. We only think we think of our own free will. As Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Getting Promoted On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Kate Gould is the new senior policy adviser to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), following a stint as a foreign policy fellow at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. She is a 2007 graduate of Western Washington University with a BA in international development, political science and international relations. Gould…
WORKPLACE ISSUES: There Are Multiple Staff-Related Provisions In The Congressional Reform Package
A path to bigger personal staffs for House Members could be cleared if the bipartisan recommendations from the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress are adopted. All House staff members would be paid twice a month instead of the monthly compensation schedule they have worked on for decades, under the recommendations. Modernization panel Chairman…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Jesus Can’t Be The Only Way To Heaven Because All World Religions Are The Same
One of the most frequently heard objections to Christianity is that Jesus claimed to be the only way to Heaven, as He did at John 14:1 when He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.” But exclusive claims like that just grate on…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Three GOP Senate Freshmen Among Top 10 For Staff Pay
Data compiled by Legistorm finds three Senate Republican freshmen among the top 10 best-paying solons in the upper chamber of Congress, according to a report published just before the Christmas break. “Among the top ten highest paying Senate offices, three first-term senators made the list: Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) with a median office salary of…
GREAT QUOTES: Author C.S. Lewis On Jesus And The Poached Egg
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make…